Re: Postgres on shared network drive

From: "Pavan Deolasee" <pavan(dot)deolasee(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "A(dot) Kretschmer" <andreas(dot)kretschmer(at)schollglas(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Postgres on shared network drive
Date: 2008-04-11 11:55:40
Message-ID: 2e78013d0804110455o473e0e7epc480b28e866ef75e@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 1:04 PM, A. Kretschmer
<andreas(dot)kretschmer(at)schollglas(dot)com> wrote:
>
>
> You idea is complete ill. PostgreSQL is a Server-Client-database, with
> one Server and multiple Clients. You can't access to the same
> database-files with multiple database-servers.
>

I wonder if it would make sense to add support to mount database in
*read-only* mode from multiple servers though. I am thinking about
data warehouse kind of operations where multiple servers can be
used answer read-only queries. Is there a use case for such applications
in real world ?

Thanks,
Pavan

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Pavan Deolasee
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

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